Chattahoochee County State
Historical Marker
Located at the Chattahoochee County Courthouse,
Cusseta, Ga.
(Text)
CHATTAHOOCHEE
COUNTY
Chattahoochee County, created
by Act of February 13, 1854, was cut off from Muscogee and Marion
Counties. It was named for the Chattahoochee River. Its courthouse,
constructed in 1854, was built of select heart lumber from the
Long Leaf Pine by slave labor. First county officers, commissioned
March 11, 1854, were William W. Bussey, Sheriff; N.N. Howard,
Clerk Superior Court; Ezekiel Walters, Clerk Inferior Court;
Abner Smith, Ordinary; William H. Askew, Tax Receiver; Stephen
Parker, Tax Collector; Littleton Morgan, Surveyor; William S.
Howard, Coroner
026-4 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1957
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